Ticket and ticket cabinet



Oct. 11, 1932 JUDD 1,881,649

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In a co-pending application Serial No. 387,719, filed August 22, 1929 I have shown and described a novel apparatus for. holding tickets such, for example, as those used in V 5 subscribing to or making reservations for a course of concerts or a series of entertainments or public events of any kind. The apparatus is designed especially for use in connection with the sale of tickets to the theatre, Opera, concerts, lectures, or the like, and it comprises a case or cabinet having a multiplicity of pockets each adapted to hold a ticket with the end of the ticket projecting from the pocket at the front of the case. The

1 pockets correspond in number and arrangement to the number and arrangement of the seats to be sold and the case or cabinet is placed in such a location that the public has access to it. In using the apparatus a person goes to the case,-selects the seat or seats which he wishes .to occupy, removes the ticket or tickets from these locations, signs his name and address on the tickets, and deposits them in thebox ofiice, or transmits the1n to the management in any convenient manner. v v

, The present invention relates to apparatus of this general character. It aims to make such apparatus more completely automatic and tominimizeany tendency-to take tickets out of the case withoutmakinga subscription. I 7 I Thenature of the invention'will be readily understood from the following discription when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims. i v I In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view, somewhat diagrammatical, of part of a case or cabinet constructed in 'accordan'cewith this .invention;

Fig.1 2 1s a vertical sect onal view on a 4 large scale showing certain details of construction of the case, an intermediateportion I .of the structure being omitted;

Fig. 3 isa perspective view of oneof the front plates or strips of the case; p v Q i Fig. 4, is a perspective view,ipartly in section, illustrating additional structural features of the case; and

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the ticket or subscription slip (hereinafter referred to as a ticket) which may conveniently be used in the case.

The case or cabinet partly illustrated in Fig. 1 is shown more completely in my pending application above referred to. It includes panels 1 and 2 which in a typical instance are, say, five or six feet high and are supported in upright positions on castors 4. Each panel holds the tickets for a given section of the hall, theatre, or opera house, and it isprovided with a multiplicity of pockets which are laid out or arranged in accordance with the floor plan of the particular section to which it relates. For example, in Fig. 1

the pockets'in the panel 1 are arranged in accordance with the seating arrangement of the floor or orchestra of a particular hall. The panel 2 is laid out according to the floor plan of the first balcony. This arrange- 'ment, of course, will vary with the individual hall, theatre, or the like, for which the apparatus is used. One pocket or slot for a tic et is provided for each seat, and the pockets correspond in number and arrangement to the number and arrangement of the seats.

The tickets used in the case may conveniently be of the form shown in Fig. 5. Referring to this figure it will be seen that this ticket comprises a relatively long narrow portion 5, hereinafter designated as the shank, and a widened end 6 with abrupt shoulders 77 at the junction of said portions 5 and 6.

A slot 8 extends longitudinally through the vides it into upper and lower sect-ions a and Z), respectively. The lower section 5 contains the subscription and therefore bears appropriate'printed matter, as shown in Fig. 5, including a blank for the name and address of the subscriber. Preferably both the widened end 6 and also the section b bear figures,

letters, or words identifying the seat which 100 this particular ticket designates. The part a of the ticket may also bear appropriate memoranda concerning the series of entertainments for which the subscription is to be made. I

It is intended that the subscriber shall write his name and address on the ticket section tear off the "section a at the tear line 9 and take the latter section away with him, leaving the section b in the case.

In the particular construction shown "each panel of the cabinet includes a rearwall 10 and afront wall spaced therefrom and comprising a plurality of metal stripslQ. These strips are nailed to a series of upright spacing bars 13 which are, turn'secured t0 the rear wall 10 so that a series of vertical chan- -ne1sare providedbetween the from a d rear walls; these channels being separated from each other by the spacingbars 13. The-strips 12' are spaced verticallyfrom each otlier and the points-where the spaces between them cross the channel's just mentioned form the pockets or ticket receiving slots, such a's those indicated at 14, Fig. 4.. These slots also are shown in section in Fig. 2-. In this particuin construction narrow metal strips 16 are located vertically between the spacing bars 18 and fthehorizontal strips 12 of the front wall, these strips 16 servin-gto narrow the slots 1 1: 'while leaving the channels the case'somewhat wider. r

Extending rearwardly' from each of the strips 12 immediately below the respective siotsn are projections which may consist of lugs or prongs 1-5, Fig.3, struck up from the-metal of the strip '12, or they may consist of pins 15', Fig.4,set into or welded to the backs of the strips 12. In fact, these projections maybe formed in a vari'ety of ways. Eachprojection extends' into theslot "8, Fig. 5;, of the ticket located in'thepocket 6r slot in the panel immediately above the respective projection and serves to prevent the withdrawal of the ticket upwardlyout of the pocket or slot. I

inspection of 2. At the same time this arrangement permits the p'artial withdrawal 01* each ticket "from its respective pocket by movement upwardlyfthrough the slot-14:30 that the subscriber can sign his nameand address, tear off the ticket at the tear line 9 and'r'elease it,-thus allowing the signedsection Z7, 5, of the ticket to drop back into one ofthe vertical channels where will fall by gravity into a drawer or box 17, Fig. 2, in the lower part of the panel.

. This drawer or box' is locked and can be opened only by the manager or' someone iauthori'zed byhim to do so. Thepurchaser may go to the box oflice and payhis sub- 'scription or he may send a check later to the "managerp' In Fig. 2 am 'ticketshafive been as... 1e1- at'ively thickso that the sh'ank's appear more from the pockets.

This will be clear from crowded in the channelsthan is the case in actual practice. 7

It will be noted that when a ticket is in one of the pockets in the case the shoulders 7-7 rest on the lower edge of one of the slots 4 and that further downward movement of the ticket in the pocket is prevented by the shoulders. When a ticket of this construction is used, the projections 15 or 15 perform simply the function of dogs to enter .the slots in the tickets and prevent their complete removal 7 It is contemplated, however, that -the projections or dogs 15-15 may also serve the additional function of advantages as that in theconstruction shown in my earlier application, above reterredto. In addition it minimizes the tendency for 1rresponsible removal of the tickets from the case. I i

While I have herein shown and described a convenient embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that the invention maybe embodied in-other forms without depart- 'in g from the-spirit or scope thereof.

Having thus described mysinvention what Idesire to'claimasgnew is: I w

1. The combination'of'a ticket case having amultiplicity of pockets thereincorrespending in number and arrangement to the number and arrangement of the seats'to be sold, eachpocket being adapted to receive the sha-nk'of a'ticket leaving the end of the ticket exposed at the front of the case, and tickets in said pocketasaid ockets and tick ct-shaving parts cooperating to permitonly a partial withdrawal or each ticket from its respective pocket merely by a longitudinal ull-on the ticket. l

2. The combination of a ticket case havifiga multiplicity of downwardl extendin pockets -therein each; adapted to receive a ticket tickets 'in said pockets, each'ofsaid tickets being slotted, and partsin saidpockets cooperating with said slots-to prevent the template withdrawalof each individual ticket from'its respectii'v'epocket nierelyb {a longitudinal pull 'on'the ticket but permitting such a pull to effect a partial withdrawal of the ticket therefrom.

3. A eeks case having anainpiieay "of responding in "inimber and arrangement to the number and rrangement Of-th'e seatsto be sold, each poeketbein'g'adaptedito receive the shank cfa ticket leaving the upper end downwardly extendin pockets therein c'orof the ticket exposed at the front of the case, tickets in said pockets, each ticket having a slotted shank portion and an enlarged head, means cooperating with the slots in the tickets for preventing the complete removal of each ticket from its pocket merely by an upward pull thereon but permitting its partial withdrawal upwardly therefrom by such a pull, and channels in said case throughwhich severed shank portions of the tickets may drop by gravity from said pockets.

4. A ticket case having a multiplicity of pockets therein corresponding in number and arrangement to the number and arrangement of the seats of an auditorium, each pocket being adapted to receive a ticket, means for preventing the complete removal of the tickets from the pockets-merely by a longitudinal pull on the tickets but permitting their partial withdrawal, and tickets in said pockets, each ticket having a tear line dividing it into two parts, and with a seat designation on one of said parts and a subscription blank on the other. a

5. A ticket case having'a plurality of pockets therein corresponding in number and arrangement to the number and arrangement of the seats or" an auditorium, tickets in said pockets, each ticket bearing a seat designatlng portion and a contract portion, and means in said pockets cooperating with the tickets to allow partial Withdrawal of the tickets from their pockets to make the contract portion thereof accessible, but preventing their complete removal from the pockets.

GEORGE E. J UDD. 

